EXCLUSIVE: MGM is developing a new installment of RoboCop and has set District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to helm the picture, which is titled RoboCop Returns. The studio hopes to revive a franchise that began with the Paul Verhoeven-directed satirical sci-fi action thriller that Orion released in 1987. Original writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner are producing and exec producing, respectively. Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the Terminator film that Tim Miller is shooting, will rewrite the script that Neumeier and Miner wrote years ago as a planned sequel to Verhoeven’s hit, an installment that never happened. That duo is creatively involved in moving forward their creation for the first time since the original.

I hate district 9 and chapie.
I love OG Robocop. The remake wasn't terrible. Not as good as the first two movies but better than a pg 13 Robocop had any right to be.
My point is I think this will suck. An R sequel to the reboot would be a better idea than this. Or like almost any other director than this guy.

The original sequel script was so-so, Evil. They even used the basics of the sequel script for the TV series; the first few pilot episodes were based off that script.

It's good that they are just saying the other three films didn't happen. But Frank Miller had some good seeds of ideas in his Robo 2 script, but he just sorta dropped the ball, even with Orion's meddling.

District 9 was awesome, while chappie was an utter disappointment.. Elysium was so so..

what lies underneath them all is the societal commentary, and if the same thing could be implemented well in robocop it could wind up being a pretty cool movie.. The old robocop had similar themes too..

I was SO young when I watched Robocop and it was so ultra-violent. Blowing his hand off, shooting him in the side of the head and the driver hitting the guy that literally explodes into guts and gore. Fantastic.

I was SO young when I watched Robocop and it was so ultra-violent. Blowing his hand off, shooting him in the side of the head and the driver hitting the guy that literally explodes into guts and gore. Fantastic.

The original sequel script was so-so, Evil. They even used the basics of the sequel script for the TV series; the first few pilot episodes were based off that script.

It's good that they are just saying the other three films didn't happen. But Frank Miller had some good seeds of ideas in his Robo 2 script, but he just sorta dropped the ball, even with Orion's meddling.

I think they're going back to the original original script, which was written by the guys who wrote the first movie.

I think we do. I didn't mind the 2014 film at all; it wasn't much like the 1987 original...but it wasn't really trying to be, either. It was doing its own thing and tapping into a different set of issues, concerns, and fears for a different era. With that being said, the original deserves a good sequel and the two that we got in '89 and '93 weren't all that great.

I thought Robocop 2 was fine. It had the gratuitous violence, dark satire, and questionable morals just like the first one. And it spawned the best line in the series, spoken by the old man as Robocop 2 went on a destructive rampage:

"This could look bad for OCP, Johnson. Scramble the best spin team we have."

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While I'm happy that Robocop lives on, I feel that Blomkamp is very overrated. District 9 was good at the time, but Elysium and Chappie were mediocre at best. All the talk about him making an Alien sequel had me irritated, because of the aforementioned reasons, and Alien is my favorite film. I also don't like how every film has to be about societal issues and rich vs poor, etc.

I'll be happy as hell and sing his praises if Robocop turns out good, but until that time I'm feeling pessimistic about it.